Missile · Air
Long Range Stand-Off Weapon
Air-launched standoff cruise missile under development.
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Timeline
No milestones recorded for Long Range Stand-Off Weapon yet. The timeline fills in as unveilings, tests, contracts and deliveries are sourced.
Cost to the Government
Missiles · RTX / Raytheon
Long Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO)
Development and procurement requests are documented without converting undisclosed missile quantities into an invented unit cost.
Comparable unit price
Not verified
No comparable standalone unit price was established; package or contract totals are shown separately.
U.S. inventory
Not verified
A current U.S. inventory was not established. Annual procurement, cumulative deliveries and production capacity are not a stockpile count.
U.S. procurement quantity
Not verified
The public MLRSO1 procurement table does not provide a usable production quantity; no quantity is inferred from funding.
U.S. Air Force ↗Annual RDT&E funding
$565.679M / yr
FY2027 total request · PB2027 · Nominal USD; source budget basis
R-1 PE0604932F Long Range Standoff Weapon. Annual appropriation, not lifetime development. FY2026 includes listed reconciliation spend-plan funds; FY2027 is requested funding. Not a contract award or recurring hardware price.
Department of Defense Comptroller ↗Cost & funding breakdown
Net procurement request
$506.047M
FY2027 · Nominal USD; source budget basis
MLRSO1 P-40, excludes current-year advance procurement shown separately.
U.S. Air Force ↗Current-year advance procurement request
$456.81M
FY2027 · Nominal USD; source budget basis
Long-lead funding for future procurement; not an additional delivered missile quantity.
U.S. Air Force ↗Keep advance procurement and warhead development separate
The budget’s total obligation authority already combines net procurement with current advance procurement. The LRSO missile program and its nuclear warhead are separate acquisition efforts; the figures here do not claim a combined weapon-plus-warhead price.
Operations & sustainment
Annual operations & support
Not verified
A complete, system-specific annual operating and support cost was not established. Procurement, replacement rounds and contract support are different measures.
Cost over time · 6 observations
Each row retains its original scope and dollar basis. Changing quantities, service life and inflation can change the estimate without changing the price of building one unit.
| Observation | Measure | Amount | Dollar basis | Evidence |
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| FY2025 actual · PB2027 | Annual RDT&E funding R-1 PE0604932F Long Range Standoff Weapon. Annual appropriation, not lifetime development. FY2026 includes listed reconciliation spend-plan funds; FY2027 is requested funding. Not a contract award or recurring hardware price. | $579.557M / yr | Nominal USD; source budget basis | Department of Defense Comptroller ↗ |
| FY2026 total enacted / spend plan · PB2027 | Annual RDT&E funding R-1 PE0604932F Long Range Standoff Weapon. Annual appropriation, not lifetime development. FY2026 includes listed reconciliation spend-plan funds; FY2027 is requested funding. Not a contract award or recurring hardware price. | $446.889M / yr | Nominal USD; source budget basis | Department of Defense Comptroller ↗ |
| FY2027 total request · PB2027 | Annual RDT&E funding R-1 PE0604932F Long Range Standoff Weapon. Annual appropriation, not lifetime development. FY2026 includes listed reconciliation spend-plan funds; FY2027 is requested funding. Not a contract award or recurring hardware price. | $565.679M / yr | Nominal USD; source budget basis | Department of Defense Comptroller ↗ |
| FY2025 · PB2027 | Procurement total obligation authority MLRSO1: net procurement plus current-year advance procurement. Not the gross procurement line plus advance procurement, which would double-count prior advance funding. | $210.335M | Nominal USD · source budget basis | U.S. Air Force ↗ |
| FY2026 · PB2027 | Procurement total obligation authority MLRSO1: net procurement plus current-year advance procurement. Not the gross procurement line plus advance procurement, which would double-count prior advance funding. | $341.372M | Nominal USD · source budget basis | U.S. Air Force ↗ |
| FY2027 request | Procurement total obligation authority MLRSO1: net procurement plus current-year advance procurement. Not the gross procurement line plus advance procurement, which would double-count prior advance funding. | $962.857M | Nominal USD · source budget basis | U.S. Air Force ↗ |
Contracts & purchasing · 1 records
Award values, ceilings and purchase agreements have different meanings. These records are not added together as total spending.
2021-07-01 · EMD award · approximately
U.S. Air Force → Raytheon
$2B · quantity not established
Air Force announcement describes about $2B. Development scope, not recurring missile hardware or W80-4 warhead cost.
Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center ↗
Connected missiles & systems
Planned weapon integration
B-52H Stratofortress →Bomber integration is development scope, not evidence of fielded LRSO inventory.
U.S. Congress ↗
International buyers
United States · Quantity not verified · Air Force development customer · 2021 award
Development contract, not an operational missile inventory.
Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center ↗
Coverage & open research
- Current U.S. inventory and complete annual operating-and-support costs require additional public evidence.
- Buyer records are selected examples, not a complete global order book.
Unit costs and contract unit prices for this system, and budget figures for the programs that buy it. Each figure states its dollar basis and links its source; contract values are under Programs & awards.